ESWC Preliminaries Now Over in Five Countries

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Qualified players and teams are now known for the United-States, Brazil, Ecuador, Germany, United Arab Emirates and Poland.

By IGN Staff

Less than three months from now, the ESWC World Finals will settle in San Jose, USA, for 3 days of competition, show and entertainment. The 6th edition of the Electronic Sports World Cup will take place on the 25th, 26th and 27th of August, during the NVISION 08, the first-ever visual computing mega-event where thousands of enthusiasts, gamers and artists will gather.

Among all these people, 800 video-games champions coming from 50 countries over the 6 continents will battle and compete to grab one of the six ESWC world titles brought into play on the following disciplines: Counter-Strike (male and female), Warcraft 3, Trackmania, DotA and Quake. But to get there, players will have had to qualify through a global network of qualifier and tournaments involving more than 100 000 players.

Five of these qualifiers are now over and national champions have been qualified in the United-States, Ecuador, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Poland. The world's best gamers will now have 12 weeks to prepare for the ESWC finals.

Qualifiers are still running in more than 40 countries, all the players and teams attending the Electronic Sports World Cup in San Jose will be qualified by the end of July. This week-end, June 7-8 2008, Russia, Portugal, Venezuela, Netherlands and the United-Kingdom are having their own national finals; results will be published on www.eswc.com.

Here are the results and details about the five national ESWC qualifiers which were held these past weeks:

Designed six years ago by Games-Services - an independent private company emerging from the gaming community - the Electronic Sports World Cup has written the most dramatic pages of e-sports' young history. Since its birth in 2003, ESWC has experienced an incredible growth based on a simple idea: select the best video games players in the world through national preliminaries and gather them once a year for a global final, thus making the games a real source of excitement for the public and media alike. ESWC is recognised all over the world as the most innovative and professional e-sports organisation, offering gamers and spectators an unparalleled experience. After the Carrousel du Louvre right in the historical heart of Paris in 2005, the Palais Omnisports of Paris-Bercy in 2006 and the 2007 edition at Paris Expo, the ESWC 2008 will take place in San Jose, California.

Generating more than 2,000 national and international press articles, over 1000 hours of TV reports and 6,000,000+ internet reviews all around the world, ESWC has truly brought public recognition to e-sports. For more information, visit www.eswc.com. Escape the summer heat and do something amazingly cool: NVISION 08 NVISION® 08 is a 55-hour, jaw-dropping, soul-jolting, visual feast that will overwhelm your senses and leave you wanting more.

Aside from amazing keynotes from industry luminaries and an expo hall featuring leading visual computing companies, you can also compete for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and prizes at GeForce LAN, the legendary LAN party five years in the making, or at NVScene, an unprecedented largest-ever gathering of creative minds in demoscene, machinima, game modding, and digital art on US soil.

If you're the more passive type, you can chill and take in eye-candy at the state-of-the-art digital theater, root for your favorite country in the nail-biting world finals of Electronic Sports World Cup, or learn practical tips and tricks from experts on everything from photo and video editing to tricking out your PC and household appliances, "MacGyver"-style.

It's the biggest thing to hit San Jose since the last earthquake! NVISION 08: August 25-27, 2008, San Jose, California. Tickets are limited. Buy now!